Building is a process,

this is ours:

  • “Precon” is a service we provide that takes place leading up to the construction phase (typically 2-4 months in advance). During this period we focus on ensuring that your design and construction expectations for the project are aligned with your financial goals.

    In this “precon” phase, we ideally partner with the architect and the rest of the project team once initial conceptual drawings have been produced. With those drawings, our team alongside the clients guidance work to define key project characteristics like: scope, schedule, costs, and level of finishes.

    Once these base characteristics have been established we begin with our detailed planning effort: engaging in early pricing analysis; submitting initial permit, utility & service applications, securing key trades, as well as meeting with subcontractors to review any areas that may need special attention.

    Finally we will prepare a line-item estimate and a draft construction schedule. As a team, we engage in value engineering, discuss construction administration strategies, and begin to procure long lead time items. All of this planning is our way of ensuring that each project we build is managed as efficiently as possible minimizing unforeseen surprises.

  • Complex architectural projects require advanced solutions to minimize challenges.

    Thats why (depending on a projects complexity) we encourage conducting a virtual review of a project. This means that before we build in the field, we first build either the entire project or critical elements digitally allowing us to find the blind spots that 2D drawings often hide. With a singular 3D model synchronizing architectural, structural, and building systems, we are able to proactively and efficiently detect these blind spots and resolve conflicts before construction even begins.

  • By this point we have prepared, planned, and united our team in order to best manage your project: accounting, project management, scheduling, logging hours, tracking changes, daily reporting. It’s all connected and in the cloud so clients, the project team, and site staff all have the ability to access, administer, and review real-time data and projections.

    During the construction phase of your project you can expect:

    • Your project manager will prepare the line-item estimate, oversee the budget, and schedule throughout the project.

    • Bi-weekly and as needed meetings will be routinely scheduled to keep communication consistent and manageable.

    • A full-time superintendent will be committed to your project ensuring quality, details, organization, cleanliness, safety, and site inspections.

  • By the time your project is completed, we will know every detail from the inside out, and you will know us pretty well too. So even once we have handed over the keys, we are simply a phone call away. Wether its routine maintenance, to a refresher on your mechanical systems, we are here.

It all starts with a discussion, contact us.

It’s your project, through and through.

Your project should be a direct reflection of you, informed by your lifestyle, aesthetic and budget. We never want you to feel like you are not in control, its your project after all, and is why we operate with complete transparency. You can expect us to always be honest and realistic about budget and schedule and keep you well informed so that you can confidently make decisions. You will always be in control of your budget and can be involved in the rest of the construction process as much or as little as you like. At the end of the day you have a whole team behind you that has your best interest in mind.

A team based approach.

The long time industry standard approach for construction has been a very linear process, where an architect engaged by the client hands the completed set of drawings to a builder for work to commence. Although a straight forward approach, it is quickly becoming outdated as the ever changing construction industry becomes more detailed and complex resulting in greater potential for challenges to arise once construction has begun. Our involvement from the start of the design stage,  enables us to work with our clients, collaborate with the architects, engineers, and designers to help find efficiencies in design that translate to the budget, and work through details using our years of construction experience. With this approach, we start each project with drawings that are already familiar and include our feedback.

Technology to optimize and inform.

By using flexible 3D modelling software we are able to virtually build your house before construction has even begun. We work closely with the consultant team using these tools to look for optimizations wherever we can helping save cost and time. We are able to accurately detail complex areas of construction and preemptively identify challenges, solving them before they even appear onsite.

Continually refining our methods.

Although we have been doing this for over 32 years, we know very well that an ever changing industry like construction demands constant education and improvement. This has been a big focus for us, it’s why we meet with our clients consistently throughout the project as well as at key milestones. Our meetings are an important time for us to be able to inform clients on the project status, brainstorm, problem solve, but also for clients to provide important feedback, and we encourage it.